The Myth Of Minimalism

There is a concept

In the self-help culture

Known as minimalism.

 

To declutter.

To get rid of things not needed.

To de-materialize . . .

 

Like all things,

If a feeling arises in one’s bones,

And is born of an organic and non-prescriptive compulsion

It is natural and pure.

 

That which is done

From a place of spontaneity

And inner desire

Need not be questioned.

 

But rarely are things done

In such a way

In the plastic culture

That is the world.

 

To declare war

Against materialism

Is no different

Than to a fight for materialism.

 

It arises from notions of good and bad.

Proper and improper.

Moral and immoral.

 

And anything that arises from such places

Is as false as false can be.

 

Concepts

Notions

And philosophies,

No matter how high and mighty

And lofty and self-important,

Are impure and untrue.

 

They are self-help

And spiritual

Materialism.

 

Such things

Do not attempt to combat materialism.

They attempt to replace it

With a different form

Of materialism.

 

It is

But a disingenuous charade

As is all of self-help

And spirituality.

 

One may surrender all that he owns

And live in a cave.

But if as he is sitting in the cave

He is thinking of the world

He has been duped by the hand of self-help.

 

Buying a hundred sports cars

Does little for a man.

But giving them away

Does nothing either.

 

So long as the buying

Or the giving away

Is done in order to adhere

To a philosophy

Or an ideal.

 

Everyone in this world

Is brainwashed into waving some sort of flag.

To stand for something.

To champion a concept.

To join a movement.

To fight against this or that.

 

All things are disingenuous.

For they are done

For external ideals.

 

In order for a person to be VIEWED

As non-materialistic.

Or a moralist.

Or a spiritualist.

Or a minimalist.

 

It is as false as the laughable charade

Of “stoicism.”

 

Stone-faced humans

Attempting to keep the stone on their cheeks

From cracking,

Lest they lose their membership

In the “stoicism club.”

 

The world and its people

Are a fraud.

 

They have been conditioned

And brainwashed

Into becoming frauds.

 

All that they stand for

Are ideals created in ivory towers

By bearded men in tall hats.

 

Sincerity

Requires no flag.

 

Genuineness

Requires no group.

 

Truth

Requires no ideal

And no man.

 

 

Namaste.